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edited by Spyros Andreopoulos (forum, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 1973), 212 pp, with illus, $9.95, New York, Wiley, 1974.

Lawrence L. Hirsch, MD, Reviewer
Chicago Medical School Downey, III

JAMA. 1975;231(9):983.

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Offsetting the pejorative and emotionally provocative title, this report of a Sun Valley Forum on National Health symposium presents much for the physician to digest and ponder. The first of four papers explicitly declares that primary care is not only medical but also psychosocial, economic, educational, cultural, and political. After an elaborate and relatively cogent argument, Dr. Alberta W. Parker concludes that consumer "needs and WANTS" (emphasis added) should be given first consideration in health care planning. In addition, she concludes that the whole of any health care system fails if primary care is neglected.

The second paper, by Dr. Charles E. Lewis, presents a pessimistic view as to the likelihood of improving access to primary care by altering the methods of educating physicians, by increasing allied medical personnel, or by intensive consumer education. His somber implication is only too clear. In the third paper, Dr. Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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